A/N: Okay woefully low number of Bennica fanfics on here, so I AM CHANGING THAT! First ever MBAV fanfic so please feel free to leave a review. I will say now I have only seen the second series because I keep missing the first but it is now waiting to be recorded so this is second series compliant... sort of.

Set after Village of the Darned, feel free to enjoy this. All mistakes are my own blah de blah (logistics/legalities/something else beginning with L all in here)

The rating will go up.

"Benny." Erica tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.

"Erica." He chirped in surprise, normally she wouldn't be seen dead talking to him. Heh Dead. He laughed in his head then pulled his face straight when she stared at him bemused.

"Benny… we need to talk." Erica leant against his locker.

"What about?" The curly haired trainee spellmaster raised an eyebrow.

"That potion you gave us." She watched as the taller boy blushed. "Yeah well I liked it… so basically what I'm saying is I want some more of your blood. No Dracula impressions!" She snapped when he held his hands up and bared his teeth. Then the full weight of her statement impacted him and he stared at her, before shrugging.

"Now?" He queried. She looked shocked that he had agreed so quickly.

"What?" She shook her head and stared at him.

"You've been grouchy since we sorted that little rugrat so I can only presume my blood makes you happier." Benny shrugged and Erica shook off her disbelief and felt her vampire instincts kicking in. Then doubt began to flare and she stared around the corridor which was thankfully empty. "So when do you want to do this?"

"Now." Her eyes were wicked brown and her fangs revealed. She grabbed his arm and yanked him into a spare classroom. He looked somewhat dazed, eyes focusing on the fangs and gulping.

"Is this going to hurt?" Benny was suddenly aware of what he had just agreed to do. He watched her falter and she frowned.

"I can make you forget the pain, it's what I do when I usually feed." She shrugged and he nodded again, closing his eyes as she neared him. He felt her lips and then nothing else, she'd pulled away. "Benny I need to see your eyes." She murmured and he cracked one open. The brown eyes swirled in front of him and his mind went curiously blank, some vague awareness that her lips were at his neck and there was the slight scrape of teeth. He closed his eyes in pleasure the flush of endorphins running through his system were doing more things to his body than he cared to admit. Suddenly she pulled away and he felt strangely empty while his sanity came crashing in. He gasped as she caught her breath, covering her teeth.

Benny had never felt so weak. He collapsed onto the table, vision blurring slightly. He stared over at Erica's who fangs had retracted and her eyes returned to their usual stunning blue. She returned his gaze and fled from the classroom. Benny looked down at his body, closed his eyes and cursed his teenage hormones, the last bell rang as he shook his head trying to clear the fuzz that had fallen. Stumbling out of the classroom Ethan spotted him. The conversation was muted and blurred in Benny's ears and he just remembered Ethan as good as carrying him home, handing him over to his Grandma who put him straight to bed. His bedroom and video games faded into blackness as his eyes closed.

When Benny woke it was dark and there was someone sat on the end of his bed.

"Grandma?" He croaked, the old lady was looking at him critically.

"Well sweetheart what have you done this time?" She raised an eyebrow and he groaned rolling over. "Drink this, it'll replenish whatever blood that blonde one took." He turned back and stared at her. "Don't look at me like that, you're forgetting what I know. I want you to bring her over and don't shake your head at me." She tutted before handing him a glass filled with thick green liquid. Benny drank the disgusting mixture and coughed at the taste.

"Grandma…"

"Not another word Benny, now don't worry about bringing her here, I'm going to see Miss Jones and you will stay here young man." His grandma's expression brooked no argument. "Just to make sure you stay here…" She clicked her fingers as the door shut behind her. Benny felt lousy and tucked his head back under the covers and dropped off thankfully quickly.

The next morning came with another round of the foul tasting liquid and Grandma ringing the school.

"Yes he'll be in the for the afternoon, I just want to check he's fully recovered from the stomach bug yesterday." He could hear the older woman cluck down the phone and then she came back and handed him a steaming mug.

"Grandma not more potions please." He grunted, burying his head in the pillows.

"This is coffee." She tutted and perched at the foot of the bed. "Miss Jones took a little too much blood from you but she is aware for the future." His grandmother, tapped him lightly on the leg beneath the covers and shook her head. "Get in the shower Benny and get to school, as far as I know Ethan and your friends are worried about you." She shuffled out of the bedroom, muttering something about vampires before closing the door behind him. The caffeine seemed to fuse with the nasty concoctions and Benny sat upright, staring at his bed and tangled covers before hauling himself out of the bed.

He was stood in the shower, washing away a day in bed and relishing the feel of warm water when Grandma knocked on the door.

"Time to go Benny." The next fifteen minutes were a blur and he was outside Whitechapel School and getting a hall pass from the office.

Classes skated through his consciousness; he was infinitely aware that Erica was somewhere near him and his body twinged with knowing she was close. When they bumped into each other at lunch, even Rory noticed they were behaving weird and that was saying something.

Erica had avoided eye contact the entire time, not even being as bitchy as possible but instead resolutely focusing on Sarah and she vanished without saying goodbye. Benny quickly disappeared in the opposite direction.

"What was that all about?" Sarah laughed, left behind with Ethan when Rory scampered to find lunch in the dumpster out back.

"I'd say they'd hooked up but that is insane." Ethan tousled the hair at the back of his neck, something he always did with Sarah around. She just laughed.

"That would never happen." The pair said their amicable goodbyes and went their separate ways to class. It wasn't until the last bell went that Erica and Benny met without Sarah or Ethan to intervene.

"So…" He started nonchalantly when she turned to look at him in surprise. "I'm sorry about Grandma… I don't know what she said…"

"She told me I took too much. That if we were to do it again I had to learn to control my hunger." Erica shrugged, looking a little bashful.

"Oh… wait she didn't shout at you?!" Benny gaped, closing his locker. Erica shook her head then heard Ethan's footsteps around the corner. "I'd like to do it again. I mean not nearly killing you but yeah…" Erica was almost back to her nerdy self as she gabbled away excuses.

"That's fine." Benny cut across her ramblings. "Can we not do it in so obvious a place…?"

"You can come back to mine?" She offered quickly leaving Benny stunned.

"I meant, not my neck, I have three different spells hiding the bruise under here." He gestured at his throat which looked a little shimmery to Erica's quick eyes.

"Yeah sure, like totally, that's fine. You just tell me where." She grinned, fangs nearly hidden though her irises were a murky mix between blue and brown, holding out her phone for Benny to input his number. "We have to keep this a secret." She whispered as Ethan rounded the corner and Benny nodded. "Where's Sarah?" She said loud enough for Ethan to hear when he looked confused at the exchange between the spell-master and the vampire.

"She's waiting at your locker?" Ethan raised an eyebrow at Benny who shrugged back.

"You wanna know where that vampire is, always ask Ethan it's like he has a Sarah-radar." Benny received a jab in the ribs from a bashful Ethan before Erica swept down the corridor.

"Shut up. Like I need her best friend knowing." He grumbled. "How you feeling today? You looked really gross a couple of days ago."

"Dude she totally already knows. Yeah much better, Grandma reckons I'd eaten too much again." Benny shrugged off the concern on his best friend's face and felt his phone vibrate in his pocket.

'Just say when'

'Already?! Give me a week's recovery time, you almost drained me'

'Nah it was never that close nerd boy'

Benny realised he was smiling at his phone when Ethan snapped his fingers in front of his face.

"What is your Grandma making casserole for dinner or something?" Ethan waved at his seemingly gormless friend.

"Something like that." Benny quickly agreed and the pair vanished back to Ethan's to play video games.